Dr. Michael Witbrock

Michael earned has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon
University. Before joining Cycorp in 2001 to direct its knowledge
formation and dialogue processing efforts, he had been Principal
Scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and
knowledge based approaches to understanding web user behavior;
a research scientist at Just Systems
Pittsburgh Research Center, working on statistical summarization; and a
systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon on the Informedia spoken document
information retrieval project.

He also performed dissertation work in the area of speaker modeling. He
is author of numerous publications in areas ranging across neural
networks, parallel computer architecture, multimedia information
retrieval, web browser design, genetic design, computational
linguistics, and speech recognition.